Jack Nilles

Educated as a physicist and engineer at Lawrence University, Ohio State
University and UCLA, Jack Nilles began his professional career as an
officer in the US Air Force at the Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory of
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio. After leaving active duty he continued
his "rocket scientist" activities by heading the preliminary
design of several remote sensing spacecraft and communications
systems for the US Air Force and NASA. He was a consultant to
President Kennedy's and Johnson's Science Advisory
Council, the National Science Foundation and other federal departments.
He also led the preliminary design project for the EROS Data Center,
which provides remote sensing output to the general public.

In 1972 he joined the University of Southern California as Director for
Interdisciplinary Research and began his formal research on telecommuting and teleworking,
terms he coined in 1973. With USC's Center for Futures Research he led
a number of studies of the present and future
impacts of information technology and created the standards by which
major telecommuting projects are judged. Now known internationally as "the
father of telecommuting/teleworking," he founded the management
consulting firm, JALA International, Inc., in 1980. He retired from
USC in 1989 to devote full time to JALA.

He has developed and/or evaluated telecommuting projects for a variety
of Fortune 100 companies, the state governments of California, Arizona
and Washington, the city of Los Angeles, and other companies and organizations
in the US, Europe, and South America. He is Past President of the International
Telework Association & Council (ITAC) and was a member of the Management
Group of the European Community Telework/Telematics Forum. In 1993,
he
received the Environmental Pride Award for his contributions toward improving
the air quality of Los Angeles, and in 1994 received an award for his
work in environmental sustainability from Renew America. In 1997 the
Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County presented him with a commendation
for his work in reducing traffic and improving the environment in the
region.

He is the author of five books, including The Telecommunications-Transportation
Tradeoff, the original book on telecommuting, as well as dozens
of chapters of books, professional papers and articles. His book, Making
Telecommuting Happen, published in 1994, is a complete how-to-do-it
manual for telework program development and management. Its sequel, Managing
Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workforce,
was published in the US and Canada in 1998. His books have been
translated into Japanese, French, and Portuguese. The Polish edition
of Managing Telework was released in 2003. The Telecommunications-Transportation
Tradeoff has been reprinted and is available from on-line vendors.
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